Jeff Abrahamson on Wed, 2 Apr 2003 10:21:06 -0500 |
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 05:15:23PM -0500, Chris Hedemark wrote: > [23 lines, 184 words, 1086 characters] Top characters: etonasir > > This touches on something I wanted to do with my metalug.org domain. > Posted here for comments. > > I was thinking along the lines of people setting up accounts with their > ZIP code, and then a preference for how many miles from their ZIP code > are they interested in Linux events for. LUG's post announcements > based on the ZIP code of their event. Thus people get announcements > based on how far they are willing to travel for Linux events. Poor > college students without transportation can set a low threshold like 2 > or 3 miles. People in the boonies can say 40 miles (which is totally > normal traveling distance for a lot of other user groups outside of the > northeast corridor). > > If you get real fancy you can even say limit the main topic to Linux > events, BSD events, PGP/GnuPG Keysigning events, etc. But for now I'm > just suggesting geographical preferences. That seems like a lot of effort to go to just so people don't have to use procmail. ;-) -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/> GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B Attachment:
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